RE: Hatred: Too good to give up?
June 7, 2015 at 11:38 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 11:39 pm by henryp.)
Hate, like morality, has gotten a ton of social and evolutionary support over the years. It's an excellent shiny object to distract/control people with. It's practical in terms of building up adrenaline for a fight, or motivating to engage in a fight for survival. It allows you to push past some boundaries that might keep you from surviving in the more cave/olden times. It's also, I think, a survival technique in that it's taking in a bunch of input, and assigning hate to things that you consciously/subconsciously view as threats. Sometimes rationally, sometimes not so much. But it focuses you in opposition of something harmful.
That's also why there are laws and the generic social contract. Because instinctively, we like to harm things we don't like. Whether it's physically, or with words, or just in fun imagined vignettes in the brain. As you said, we can't just go around braining each other with bricks. That wouldn't be much fun for anyone who would prefer not to be brained in the head with a brick.
That's also why there are laws and the generic social contract. Because instinctively, we like to harm things we don't like. Whether it's physically, or with words, or just in fun imagined vignettes in the brain. As you said, we can't just go around braining each other with bricks. That wouldn't be much fun for anyone who would prefer not to be brained in the head with a brick.
